ABSTRACT
An interview with Jim Thomas of the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC) considers the possibilities for a radical politics of technology that could link disparate struggles against specific applications like GM crops, geoengineering and nuclear power. Essential features of such a politics would include a rejection of ‘techno-fix’ approaches, a critique of how new technologies promote corporate concentration and power, and leadership by indigenous and peasant movements from the global south, whose own knowledge and technologies are often far more conducive to social equality, local autonomy and genuine ecological sustainability.
